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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Uncoiling the American Economy

Regulatory Python
by Sean Hackbarth, Free Enterprise: The cover of this week’s Economist is a topic that’s tackled almost daily here: the over-regulation of America. Rule after rule after rule, mostly all well-meaning, grips the economy, squeezing out its vitality.

In particular, the Economist editorial calls out the Dodd-Frank law for its complexity:
At 848 pages, it is 23 times longer than Glass-Steagall, the reform that followed the Wall Street crash of 1929. Worse, every other page demands that regulators fill in further detail. Some of these clarifications are hundreds of pages long. Just one bit, the “Volcker rule”, which aims to curb risky proprietary trading by banks, includes 383 questions that break down into 1,420 subquestions.
The result is “financial firms in America must prepare to comply with a law that is partly unintelligible and partly unknowable.”

Next in the Economist’s sights is the 2010 health care law which has its share of ridiculousness:
Next year the number of federally mandated categories of illness and injury for which hospitals may claim reimbursement will rise from 18,000 to 140,000. There are nine codes relating to injuries caused by parrots, and three relating to burns from flaming water-skis.
That gives a new meaning to “Smoke on the Water.”

While the regulatory pile-on is bipartisan, this chart from the Jobs Creators Alliance shows the number of “economically significant rules” has gone up more steeply in the last few years under the current administration. The White House concedes their new rules have cost businesses $25 billion, more than double the costs from the two previous administrations.

The complexity of all these rules squeezes the air out of the economy. For example, the Economist notes that the Sarbanes-Oxley financial law caused America’s share of initial public offerings (IPOs) to drop from 67% to 16%. In addition, more rules prevent businesses from investing in projects, growing, and hiring workers. Then Gallup found almost half of small businesses say government regulations are keeping them from hiring. And we’re surprised unemployment is as high as it is?

A step toward a solution is also bipartisan, the Regulatory Accountability Act, sponsored by Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Susan Collins (R-ME). It would require agencies to weigh the costs and benefits of proposed rules, add more transparency and public input to the rulemaking process, and ensure agencies use sound scientific and technical data in their analysis.

It’s a way to uncoil the regulatory python around the American economy, allowing it to spring free to create jobs and prosperity.
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ARRA News Service Editorial Note: In sharing the excellent article by Mr. Hackbarth, we are not endorsing actions of the Senators mentioned. It is seldom that we offer or share anything positive about Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor. The reasons are obvious. This site is conservative and he is not. However, it surprised me that he co-sponsored the "Regulatory Accountability Act." We will wait (not holding our breath), to see if this Act develops into a meaningful restraint on government regulations. After all, this is the same Mark Pryor who supported the Federal health Care law which has been one of the biggest takeovers of American business and biggest attacks on individual rights and personal liberty through regulations. So for now, Sen. Pryor, we are indeed watching your words and actions.
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The Free Enterprise Magazine is a publication of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Sean Hackbarth is the conservative free market advocate and coordinates blogger, policy advocacy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
. He personally blogs at The American Mind. He is also a valuable ARRA News Service informational source on the economy and on pending issues before Congress


Tags: Sean Hackbarth, Free Enterprise, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Dodd-Frank law, 2010 health care law, regulatory python, regulations, rules, final rules, the economy, business, industry To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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2 Comments:

Anonymous Doug McDowell said...

Why does our government refuse to level the playing field for merican Companies? How can they compete with foreign companies while the government sucks the profits from them through corporate tax rates while collecting only a minimum amount from the foreigners? It's not possible, Obama may not have started this but he could have ended it 3 years ago.

2/19/2012  
Anonymous Bob Cohee said...

Good article but Pryor is still on my get rid of list.

I already told him- Bye Bye Mark just like I did with Bye Bye Blanch.

2/19/2012  

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